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Non Life Sciences => Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology => Topic started by: driller on 01/02/2013 04:25:25

Title: Amount of shear applied and impact force of a Kitchen blender
Post by: driller on 01/02/2013 04:25:25

Hello people,
I am in need of this information in the title for doing some calculations. Anyone know where i can find these information or the data to help me calculate them? Assume a Hamilton Beach household blender.

Title: Re: Amount of shear applied and impact force of a Kitchen blender
Post by: CliffordK on 01/02/2013 11:13:29

Assuming a mostly empty blender/food processor.

Then you could assume the blade is turning at about the free spinning RPM.

You can calculate the velocity of the tips of the blade based on length and RPM.

How fast do the nuts move?  You could attribute V=0 to them.  This might be good if chopping in pulse mode, but perhaps not accurate for a blending operation.

What happens to a nut (say at V=0), when struck by a moving blade?